TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL Transparency International, the global civil society organisation leading the fight against corruption, brings people together in a powerful worldwide coalition to end the devastating impact of corruption on men, women and children around the world. TI’s mission is to create change towards a world free of corruption. Though more than 90 chapters worldwide and an international secretariat in Berlin, Germany, TI raises awareness of damaging effects of corruption and works with partners in government business and civil society to develop and implement effective measures to tackle it.

Indices CPI The annual TI Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) ranks more than 150 countries in terms of perceived levels of corruption, as determined by expert assessments and opinion surveys.Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) BPI The TI Bribe Payers Surveys evaluate the supply side of corruption - the propensity of firms from industrialised countries to bribe abroad. GCB The Global Corruption Barometer is a survey that assesses general public attitudes toward and experience of corruption in dozens of countries around the world. GCRGlobal Corruption Report provides an annual assessment of the state of corruption around the world. TI has defined five global priorities in the fight against corruption: Corruption in politics Corruption in public contracting Corruption in the private sector International anti-corruption conventions Poverty and development

TI also continues to focus its attention on the following thematic issues: Access to information Education Health Forest Integrity Network (FIN)

Corruption in Politics TI has developed several effective tools to monitor corruption in politics. This has made the problem manifest for policy makers and for the general public, and has provided evidence to underpin recommendations for reform. At the international level TI has been involved in standard setting, issuing the TI Standards on Political Finance and Favours in 2004.everal effective tools Corruption in Public Contracting Tenders Integrity Pact is a tool developed during the 1990s to help governments, businesses and civil society, which are prepared to fight corruption in the field of public contracting. Project Anti-Corruption System (PACS) is an integrated and comprehensive system designed by TI to assist in the prevention of corruption on construction projects.

Public Contracting Monitoring System (PCMS) is a tool to observe and measure public contracting systems and their changes towards or away from an “ideal” contracting system - in terms of transparency, corruption prevention, and control. Transparency and accountability Revenue Transparency Project aims at making extractive industries’ revenues of most benefit to society by increasing the transparency and accountability of extractive industry revenues. EITI The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative supports improved governance in resource-rich countries through the verification and full publication of company payments and government revenues from oil, gas, and mining Public and private Industry Business Principles for Countering Bribery is a generic anti- bribery code developed by TI with a group of leading multinationals and non-corporate stakeholders.Business Principles for Countering Bribery